The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22

| tampa, was destroyed by hre tuesday
morning.
The Mirror. Lake Helen's new paper, will
make its appearance next Saturday, H.. s
Leete, publisher.
At Tamra, Tuesday, at meeting Of the
City Council, the quarantine against ref
ugees was raised.
Should DeSoto be divided the new county
would not be entitled. TO any Representa-
tive in the Legislature.
Nearly all the poles for the electric light
at DeLand have been erected, and the light
will be turned on in few days
The Putnam House at Palatka will be
opened Jan t. Mr.. Barron writes that he
will be in Palatka next Monday or Tues
day.
At DeLaud Saturday night small house
in the eastern portion of the city, the prop
erty of Rev. Il. T. Christian, of Savannah,
was destroyed by fire
AT Interlachen, Monday, meeting was
held by the regis cred voters, and by a
unanimous vote IL was decided TO incorpo-
rate the town of Interlachen.
AT Gainesville the trial of Samuel w.
Polk for the murder of Bob Lanson, near
| Sentadey, is now progressing. A special
venire was returned Tuesday morning and
the jury was filled at IL o'clock.
The work of laying the asphalt pavements
| around the Ponce de Leon at st. Augustine
has begun and will, when completed, make
u striking contrast TO the wretched condition
of the rest of the city thoroughfares.
The DeLand fire department was called
out twice Monday A small house of A.
! W. Voorhis', and occupied by negroes, was
burned, and large dwelling on New York
avenue caught fire in one of the second
story rooms. but it was soon extinguished.
The DeLand Immigration and Improve
ment Association has appropriated $500 TO
add TO a like amount contributed by II. A.
DeLand for the purpose of advertising the
! town, and getting up cheap excursions TO 1t
| from Jacksonville, st. Augustine and other
places.
Last Monday six-foot pulley in the engine
room of the DeFuniak Lumber Company
burst while the engine was running at full
speed. Pieces of the pulley passed entirely
through the mill, tearing through both
floors and the roof. Luckily no one was
| hurt, and the damage was hastily repaired.
The announcement is made that the Casa
Monica at st. Augustine will not be opened
until Jan. II. +. n. Wilson, the proprietor
of the Casa Monica, states that he has every
assurance of n prosperous season, his en-
gagements being very large and applications
for rooms are pouring in on him by every
mail.
Henry Afford. of DeFuniak, who for
some time has been working on the Pensa-
cola and Atlantic railroad as fagman, met
with painful accident last Sunday. His
hand was caught between the bumpers and
badly mashed, by which he will lose several
of his fingers, if not his hand. He is now at
Argyle under treatment of DIR. McLane.
a K Leon, at 20 West Bay street, Jack
sonville, while crossing the street in front of
Bours', Tuesday, picked up Is calibre rifle
cartridge, which was lying on the street car
rail A car had passed over it and had
mashed it fat, but owing to the thickness of
the rim, the cap had not exploded. Had the
cap been struck, the chances are that the
ball would have found lodgment in some
body's person.
The Netos has received the programme of
the regatta at Pensacola, which comes off
Feb. Z, s, 8 and 10 next year. The Secre-
tary of the Navy has written that the North
Atlantic squadron will rendezvous at Pen
sacola during the regatta, if possible. Over
So 900 in premiums is offered. No entrance
fee is required in any race. Time allow
ances will be made under the rules of the
New York Yacht Club.
Connection was made Saturday afternoon
between track-laying gangs Nos. l and of
the Orange Belt railway at Macon. This
opens up 100 miles of completed railway for
this line, which is fast being completed to
the Gulf. Traffic to Tarpon Springs will be
opened by Jan. l. Over 600 men are at
work on the line between San Antonio and
st. Petersburg. P d. Armour, one of the
largest stockholders, went over the line
Tuesday with General Manager Demens and
Mr.. Lissberger, on an inspecting tour. Ru
NOR has it that Mr.. Armour will put in a
branch house at some point on the line, pre-
sumably at st. Petersburg
P. Cunneely, of Palatka, is the recipient
of large handkerchief of American silk,
grown by Alderman j. Cavanaugh, of New
York city. On the centre of this handker-
chief is photograph of Jake Kilrain, the
pugilist who recently fought Jem Smith
l0o rounds making draw. In the upper
right hand corner is an American shield in
red, and in the opposite corner the Irish
harp on a green field, while in the lower
corners are the coats of arms of Maryland
and Massachusetts in half red and green,
except the portrait, which is photograph.
Everything is woven into the handkerchief
The Maryland coat-of-arms represents his
native State and the Massachusetts, his
adopted home.
For the past month gang of ruffians,
making its Headquarters at point near the
Florida Railway and Navigation track, and
about three miles from Fernandina, has been
guilty of throwing rocks at night through
the windows of passing railway trains.
Monday night an unknown party threw
rock through window, nearly hitting a
passenger. Tuesday morning Conductor
Kidwell was on the watch for the gang. AS
the train passed the place where the gang
stops, a rock crashed through one Of the car
windows When the missile was hurled the
conductor jumped off the train. As he
Jumped three men ran out from behind
pile of fire wood and took to the woods, leav-
ing two carts which they had. The conduc-
tor and several of the passengers who had
leaped with him from the train, jumped in
the carts, and after a hard chase captured
two of the fugitives, the third escaping.
The two caught claim that the one who es-
capped threw the missile, and gave his name
as William Redmont. Conductor Kidwell
turned the captured pair over to Conductor
Dewson, who took them to jacksonville.
IL